suggestions & a question

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"Peter J. Braam" <braam at cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> Arla came up pretty easily on my machine. Congratulations.

Thanks.

> 1. My machine doesn't seem to have kafs and I get a linking problem for
> fs. What can I do about that?  I do have vanilla MIT kerberos installed. 

We usully build with kth-krb and doesn't detect those errors,
fs is pretty useless w/o kafs. Guess we should disable it when
we dont find a kafs.

README:
If you are using MIT-Kerberos or CNS Kerberos you can find a replacement
for libkafs in http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/dist/krbafs.html. Then you
need to use the --with-krbafs=dir option when running configure.
Thanks to Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org> for making this
available for the american users.

> When I have had more time with this we should see if we can't learn a
> little more between each other from Coda and ARLA experiences.  In
> particular, we could use one set of kernel code: you seem to have more PAG
> support than we do and some other pretty neat things. 

The pags are one thing to use together. Another thing that I'm intresed in
is the DB-servers that you currently are writing on. 
(Yale Protection server ?) 

I don't know about Venus/xfs compability, I have not yet looked at
your rpc interface.

> Coda kernel code is now also in use by a project in Australia building a
> network filesystem so our "kernel/Venus" protocol is apparently useful.

Arla's xfs-module is inspirerd by coda's venus. (I'm not the designer).

> How stable is ARLA on FreeBSD (I'd like to build a kernel in ARLA as a
> measure of stability)?

At least AndrewBenchmark work. I have built a kernel in arla for
a long time ago. For now I don't know...

> Oh yeah, how do I get an AFS token?

Get kthkrb from ftp://ftp.nada.kth.se/pub/krb/src/ and build
the afstools, or use transarc aklog (guess it should work).
/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/i386_linux2/local/bin/aklog will
probably be a good place to find it ;)

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